Ever wonder how different countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East deal with mental illness? The GRC is planning on sending teams to Benin, Togo, India and Jordan to document the challenges and the solutions. We launched a crowdfunding campaign to make this project a reality.

A side effect of China’s dramatic economic growth has been dramatic pollution, but China’s next generation wants to change that. An environmental movement is emerging in China — young people determined to clean up their country and chart a green future for their country.

Timber smuggling is one of the biggest black markets in the world. Every year thousands of hectares of forests are secretly being cut down. Once sawn into boards and mixed with legally harvested timber, the origins are practically untraceable…

This International Reporting Program series explores how Brazil’s economic and energy interests clash with efforts to protect the environment and preserve ancestral aboriginal land. As a result, many people have been killed, put on death lists or chased off their land.

Imagine recovering from major surgery or suffering from advanced cancer without any painkillers. That’s the reality for patients in half the countries in the world. But unlike with so many global health problems, this one is not about money or a lack of drugs.

We travelled to Thailand – the world’s largest exporter of shrimp – to investigate consequences of cheap shrimp. In just a few decades, these tiny crustaceans went from being a rare delicacy to an abundant seafood staple. But shrimp’s plunge in price has come at a high cost to forests, marine ecosystems and labourers in the developing world.

This documentary, which won the 2010 Emmy for Best Investigative Magazine, traced the global trade of electronic waste. With millions of tons of electronics discarded every year, we wanted to see where it all goes. What we found was not only a health and environmental disaster, but also a genuine security threat.

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